5-29. Both tragedies and mundanities can have transformative effects. Your growth is guaranteed. Your resistance to expansion is a choice. Trust your Path. Even when obscure, its course is perfectly correct.
Where it is that you are to go is not always clear. Even attempting to posit that you are involved within a process that actually involves travel, at least in a linear and physical sense, is confusing and primarily incorrect, for your transformation away from the darkness and fear that is endemic to the ego, and towards the Light that will alter all of your perceptual framework into one that is in complete alignment with Love, is not at all an actual progression. As such, attempting to label what is to be as a journey is helpful in one manner, for it serves to designate some distinction between what was - which was, universally, merely a state of misperception - from what will be, which will continuously and effortlessly become an ever greater unfolding of all of your latent and unrealized potentiality, so that you can be just as you were Created to be, Freed from fear and wholly present in each moment as it arises for you. Progression is oftentimes misunderstood within the world of form, for genuine transformation is always equally internal and undefinable to another Child of God, for what is it that you are to show them, when all that alters is a great release of that which was error, so that you can become ever more yourself, which is not at all a distinction that is readily apparent, nor is it a newly found presentation that may be easily understood by another who has known you at a time when you were “lesser” or more constricted within your own presumptions of what it meant to exist as your most expressive and free self. Because of these seemingly irresolvable contradictions, it is best to allow what is to be to arise when it is ready to do so, rather than setting forth for yourself some magically mystical “perfect” version of your “highest” self, one that is so very unobtainable and set so far into the deep future that your expectations remain wholly centered within beliefs that while you can dream of being just so wondrously perfected, surely such an event will never come to pass. That is how the ego sneaks in wherever it can, seeking out certain crevices and cracks in your beliefs that it can inject itself into, so that subterfuge and deception become the order of not just one day, but every day yet to come. To compare is to believe that you could be lesser, and that you can then become “greater” or more “actualized” than you are now. Even these terms are fraught with misunderstandings, for from certain perspectives, they are not wholly inapplicable. Certainly you will feel as though you are more powerful and peaceful to the extent that you allow yourself to align with the Truth that your heart has kept safe for you, but such conceptualizations can become their own sources of error when they are used in the interests of judgment or condemnation, either of your past manners of expression or of the ways that the other incarnate Children of God hold themselves out to be at this particular moment in their own progression back to Love and to a Freedom that knows no bounds at all. Restriction is a choice, but Freedom is a Certainty. These are not contradictory statements, nor do they stand in opposition to each other, for there can only be the Truth of Love - all that is not of God is not actually Real, and so while it can even have some modicum of value when it is used as a reference point to enlighten you regarding all that was incorrect, once you are ready to set aside all that was illusion, you will have no further thought of what it might have been, for its unreality will be Seen clearly and so it will be set aside and discarded, as if it had never arisen at all. Much can assist with this process of distinguishment that can unfold over so very many lifetimes indeed, but there is, in Truth, no need on your part for assistance in any form. All that you are asked to do is to release all that was never Real, so that the Peace that accompanies a complete surrender to the Love of God becomes so very present that to seek out anything else would be seen not simply as foolhardy - it would be a meaningless endeavor, for there would be clearly recognized by you all that can teach you of your own True Nature, and then there would be absolutely everything else, great accumulations of illusions that have no significance to the Awakening mind at all. Mundanities may appear to be so very commonplace and so divested of any genuine significance that they become ignored, rote operations of routine that are waded through but never actually engaged with, for they are repeated so many times that no further concentration is required to complete them once again. Yet all that transpires can be transformative, when the correct perspective is taken up, a deep and abiding contrast to the “auto-pilot” that so many minds encounter when they are performing commonplace and deeply practiced tasks, whether they be physical or mental in nature. In each instance that you experience anything at all that seems to be so very intimately familiar, you can discover yet another example of the wondrously freeing ability that you have always possessed to be present, absent any thought at all that is distracting, fully aware of what it is that you are doing or thinking, without any aspect of attachment, as has likely been so very normal for you that you’ve long since forgotten that you are involved in attachment at all. This newly accepted perspective can be massively refreshing, for there are no events that are exactly the same, and all that arises can be seen again in a new and much more bountiful Light, one that illustrates that Peace exists here and now - never in the past or in the imagined future. Tragic events can be as this as well - difficult, to be sure, and absolutely unwelcome in the extreme, but they remain points of inflection that can assist you with traveling ever deeper into your own patterns of behavior and reactive certainties that are anything but required. Tragedy can transform all that was once beautiful into a great wasteland of loss and pain, seemingly leaving you forever altered by what has been taken away or utterly destroyed. Yet all that is of form serves Love, and so in the absence of form, Love remains. Minds can be rendered mute, bodies obliterated and hearts broken, but none of these events actually alters all that is True, for they are but neutral happenstances, oftentimes wholly unjustifiable by any measure that has rationality, and yet they arise constantly and stalk their next prey mercilessly. When such next arrives for you, invest yourself within your grief in the interest of transcending it - never with the desire to carry that burden upon your back for the rest of your days, for to be within a state of mourning is valuable and appropriate, but it is not a method of perception that is justifiable for eternity. All that is lost is merely transformed, for all of the Love that you have ever known will be kept safe for you within the Mind of God. All that is Love is never lost. As such, whatever it is that you miss is not genuinely Love, but rather one of its many manners of expression, and while it would be lovely indeed if loss needed never befall anyone at all, that is not the nature of a random and chaotic universe of form, and so these events will occur again, and you will not necessarily be able to avoid them all. Nor should you wish to do so, for within all that occurs there is much that can be utilized to assist you with being at peace with all that you cannot control. That is the gift of what is taken, as well as what is received, and it will not cease until no further Children of God have use of such occurrences. To resist what is arising to assist you is but to testify to a truth that you cannot possibly create - that you are better able than God to determine what it is that you can learn about yourself and your True Nature. Destiny is not fixed. Free Will is not abridged. Choices are not illusions - they are the very fabric with which all of the textiles of possibilities are weaved, for nothing can arise for you that you will not allow to become manifest. Obfuscation of your Path does not serve to designate it as unattainable or undiscoverable. It merely means that there is a certain and generally very small amount of faith that is required for your next progression to be entered into, and that faith and trust will arise from your heart just as soon as you are ready for it to be heard. Trusting that your Path will unfold as just is best for you is the first step upon your journey towards the complete release of all beliefs in impossibilities. Obscuration of your next and most opportune choice does not imply that the election is impossible. It merely means that you are resistant in some way, and that it a great Gift in and of itself, for only when opposition is encountered can it be released. Trust, most beautiful Child of God. There is nowhere to go but Home to God. How long you delay is irrelevant. The Light awaits. Look within, and you will See that it has always been equally without as well.